March 9

Events

1822: Greek revolutionaries, under Theodoros Kolokotronis, defeat the Turkish army at Saravali, Achaea
1941: The Italian Spring offensive against the Greek forces commences.
1956: Archbishop Makarios III is seized at Nicosia Airport by the British colonial authorities in Cyprus and exiled to the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean.
1959: EOKA suspend their activity in response to the London-Zurich accords.
1971: Two Greek rivers, the Evros and the Pineios flood causing damages to the produce in their respective areas.
2012: Greece achieves the biggest national debt writedown in history (€105 billion) as the vast majority of its private creditors sign up to a bond swap.

1926: Panaitolikos is founded.
1941: Panathinaikos defeat a team of British aviators 6-2.
1971: En route to the 1971 European Cup Final, Panathinaikos draw away to Everton 1-1 in the quarterfinals. The scorer of PAO's goal is number 9 (Antonis Antoniadis) who scored his 9th goal in Europe, on the 9th of the month, 9 minutes before time, exactly at 9:00PM!
2011: Panachaiki president, Alexis Kougias, produces tapes which he claims are evidence of attempted bribery of referees in domestic and European matches of Greeks clubs.
2025: Emmanouil Karalis wins gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.